RoverRide YC Application

Winter 2013Inactive

RoverRide went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2013 batch as a Consumer company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2013
Industry: ConsumerTransportation Services
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Lev PopovFounder

What RoverRide does

Real-time transit directions in San Francisco. Rover uses real-time public transit data to give you the best route, right now, to your destination. Always get the best route to your destination. Rover tracks all MUNI, BART, and Caltrain lines and gives you directions that make sense right now, so you don't have to wait or worry about missing a connection. Currently supporting SF MUNI, BART, and Caltrain in the SF Bay Area.

RoverRide's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

RoverRide, Winter 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

RoverRide

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A universal urban transit app

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built Rover to give real-time transit directions in San Francisco. It tracks all MUNI, BART, and Caltrain lines and shows you the best route right now, so you don't have to wait or miss your connection. It solves the problem that transit apps typically show scheduled times rather than live conditions, which leads to guesswork and missed rides.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, and the company would be based in San Francisco after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the transit data we use comes from and where our users live. Being local lets us quickly test and improve real-time routing in the city.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real RoverRide YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from RoverRide's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like RoverRide would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.